Julie-anne's Show at 69 Smith Street

Here's the link to Julie's website

This is the press reslease and invite for her show:

"Against the weather: arid land”
-a series of paintings by Julie-anne Armstrong-Roper

Julie-anne Armstrong-Roper's latest exhibition, “Against the Weather: arid land” will open at the 69 Smith Street gallery on 31st July. Since 1991 Julie-anne’s work has been widely exhibited in Melbourne and overseas, including a major solo exhibition in 2000 at Australia House in London.

During the past eight years the works have explored the complexities of the human psyche. Julie-anne’s paintings were not purely landscape but abstractions where the weather was used as a metaphor for the emotive changes we experience throughout our lives. Using the sky in all its moods not only to communicate her own feelings, but also to invoke an emphatic response from the audience, Julie-anne has united the external with the internal.

In her latest body of work she has expanded upon these themes. Moving on from abstractions taken from nature, Julie-anne has returned to the figurative, endeavouring in her new works to use the whole landscape to express a feeling of isolation and a sense of the frailty of humanity exposed to the elements. Julie-anne believes this to be the natural continuation of her work, expressing human nature and emotion using the atmospheric and geological environments.

In her art practice Julie-anne aims to create a sense of light and depth beyond the painted surface. She does this by building up the layers of paint and medium over a long period of time. Light is absorbed and contained in her paintings, allowing the viewer to look into the canvases and become totally engrossed by the images.

Julie-anne’s works will be on exhibition until 16th August at: 69 Smith Street Gallery, Collingwood.